Month: April 2025

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: A $2.7 Million Mining Heist, Tariffs For Miners and Top 5 Mining Historical Moments

South American gangs with Bitcoin miners? That’s right! This and top 5 historical moments in Bitcoin you should know about!


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Welcome to The Mining Pod! In this episode, the team discusses recent Bitcoin mining trends including a projected 8% difficulty decrease, fee revenue rebounding to 3.3% of block rewards, and major loans from Coinbase and Matrixport to miners amid ATM market hesitancy. They analyze the curious case of $2.7M in stolen Bitcoin miners (many outdated S9s) intercepted at LAX, customs control gaming allegations, and tariff implications for ASIC importation. The highlight is a lively debate on the top 5 moments in Bitcoin mining history, with strong disagreements about whether mining pools deserve a spot!


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Notes:

• Bitcoin hash rate down ~100 EH/s from April peak

• Transaction fees rebounding to 3.3% of block rewards

• $2.7M in stolen ASIC miners intercepted at LAX

• AnAlpha IPO filing with 1.63B in outstanding loans

• ASIC miners classified under tariff code 8543

• AnAlpha's US customer base dropped from 25% to 6.9%


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:13 Luxor Difficulty Report

06:21 LAPD Finds Millions in Stolen S9s

08:37 Sneaking ASICs into the US?

12:19 Tariffs again....

15:35 Fractal Bitcoin

16:11 Top 5 Bitcoin Mining Moments in History

31:26 Antalpha’s IPO


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Cato Daily Podcast - Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners.


Why have five or more children? Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk details the stories and reasoning of dozens of women who have gone well beyond replacement-level fertility.

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CBS News Roundup - 04/25/2025 | World News Roundup

Final hours for mourners to file past Pope Francis's body at St. Peter's Basilica. New push for Ukraine peace talks. New Jersey arson arrest. CBS News Correspondent Peter King has today's World News Roundup.

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Marketplace All-in-One - Trade tensions play out in a U.S.-Canada border town

In the months since President Donald Trump's re-election, a lot has changed between the United States and Canada. New import taxes and talk of Canada becoming the 51st state, for example. It all adds up to a strained relationship where Canadians feel both betrayed and uncertain about the future. Today, we're visiting Thunder Bay, Ontario to hear more. Plus, we're looking at why more farmers are struggling to pay back their debt.

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Marketplace All-in-One - Britain’s Post Office pays millions for a faulty system

From the BBC World Service: The U.K.'s Post Office continues to pay millions of dollars to use the bug-ridden Horizon IT system, whose failings resulted in hundreds of wrongful fraud convictions. We'll unpack why the Post Office has failed to switch systems yet. Then, India revokes visas and Pakistan halts trade after a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir. Plus, we'll examine the rise in the price of gold.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day With A Chicago Crawl

This weekend, Chicago-area bookstore owners and readers alike will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day with an all-day bookstore crawl. Reset learns about the city’s indie bookstore scene with Courtney Bledsoe, owner of Call and Response Books in Hyde Park; Jamie Ericson, co-owner of Dandelion Bookshop in Oak Park; and Rebecca George, co-owner of Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park and an organizer of the Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Up First from NPR - Ukraine-Russia Peace, Noncitizens And Due Process, Khartoum Destroyed

Ukraine says a ceasefire must be in place first before it will accept a peace deal with Russia, President Trump claims it's not possible for all of the people he wants to deport to get a trial, and after two years of brutal fighting, Sudan's once-vibrant capitol city of Khartoum is in ruins.

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Freakonomics Radio Archives - Freakonomics - Will 3 Summers of Lincoln Make it to Broadway?

It’s been in development for five years and has at least a year to go. On the eve of its out-of-town debut, the actor playing Lincoln quit. And the producers still need to raise another $15 million to bring the show to New York. There really is no business like show business. (Part three of a three-part series.)

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Headlines From The Times - California’s Economy Grows, Port Traffic Shrinks, and a Real ID Deadline Nears

California’s economy is now the world’s fourth-largest, but new federal tariffs could put that growth at risk. Meanwhile, the state is racing to get more residents signed up for a Real ID before the May 7 deadline, which will impact domestic travel. At the Port of Los Angeles, imports are already dropping as major retailers pull back due to trade tensions. And in Long Beach, hospitality workers at the convention center have secured raises, healthcare, and stronger pensions following a wage dispute.


 

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Marketplace All-in-One - Bytes: Week in Review – OpenAI’s for-profit troubles, FTC sues Uber and how VCs are weathering Trump tariffs

It's the last Friday in April and it's time for Marketplace Tech Bytes Week in Review.


This week, we'll talk about how the Federal Trade Commission is suing Uber over its subscription service.


Plus, how the VC world is navigating the uncertainty created by the trade war.


But first, a nonprofit pivot is facing some challenges. Open AI, the maker of ChatGPT was founded about a decade ago as a nonprofit research lab. It's now looking to restructure as a for-profit — specifically, a public benefit corporation


But that transformation is facing resistance.


About 10 former Open AI employees, along with several Nobel laureates and other experts, have written an open letter asking regulators in California and Delaware to block the change.


They argue that nonprofit control is crucial to Open AI's mission, which is to “ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."


Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, about how unusual it is to see this kind of conversion.



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More on everything we talked about


An Open Letter - Not For Private Gain


Ex-OpenAI workers ask California and Delaware AGs to block for-profit conversion of ChatGPT maker - from the Associated Press


OpenAI’s Latest Funding Round Comes With a $20 Billion Catch - from the Wall Street Journal


FTC Takes Action Against Uber for Deceptive Billing and Cancellation Practices - from the Federal Trade Commission


FTC sues Uber over difficulty of canceling subscriptions, “false” claims - from ArsTechnica


White House Considers Slashing China Tariffs to De-Escalate Trade War - from the Wall Street Journal


VC manufacturing deals were already declining before tariffs entered the picture - from Pitchbook